Hypothalamic calcium imaging data analysis reveals core differences in the neural coding of social behaviors
In an innovative new publication from the Anderson lab at Caltech, ‘An approximate line attractor in the hypothalamus encodes an aggressive state,’ Nair et al. use the Inscopix miniscope to investigate the population dynamics of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl) during aggressive behavior. This brain region was previously shown to cause attack behavior when optogenetically stimulated,